Severing device for cigar-bands and the like.



W. U. GOSS.

SEVERING DEVICE FOR CIGAR BANDS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.19, 1913.

1,124,223. Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

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WILLIAM C. GOSS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SEVERING DEVICE FOR CIGAR-BANDS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed November 19, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. Goss, a citizen of the United States, a resident of ll linneapolis, in the county of I-Iennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Severing Devices for Cigar-Bands and the like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in severing devices and has for one principal object the provision of a means or contrivance whereby a band or label made of paper or other frangible material used on a package, cigar, or other article may be easily and quickly severed so as to be removed therefrom by the use of a flexible means, without injury or damage to the package, cigar, or other article.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, my invention consists in a construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and then sought to be defined in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing which shows for illustrative purposes only, an embodiment of my invention in use as a means for severing the label or band on a cigar, it being understood that the idea is adaptable to various other similar uses without digressing from my inventive idea.

In the drawings: Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a cigar, its band and one form of severing means. Fig. 2 represents a similar view showing another form of severing means. Fig. 3 represents a similar view with the band or label completely applied and the article ready for sale with the device ready for use.

It frequently happens in removing the band or label from a cigar or package that the wrapper is broken or other damage done to said goods. It is also well known that this operation is inconvenient. Now then, in order to obviate this difficulty, I have de vised this invention which consists in so arranging a flexible means in connection with the band or label, that, it may be pulled to completely sever the band or label and per mit its ready removal from said cigar, package, or other article without damaging the wrapper or contents thereof.

Referring to the drawings and to Fig. 1 in particular, 1 designates the article, in this Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Serial No. 801,792.

case a cigar, and 2 the band or label. Secured to the under side of the band or label by paste, or like means, is the flexible severing means in the form of a ribbon or tape 8 having its ends 4:, free. By pulling either end upwardly or away from the cigar or package when the band is closed as in Fig. 3, the band or label will. be severed and therefore readily removed from the article.

In the embodiment of my idea as illustrated in Figs. :2 and 8, the severing means 5 has its intermediate portion 6 beneath the lower end portion 7 of the band or label and has its end portions 8 and 9 folded over the the top face of said lower end portion 7, leaving the ends 10 free. When the band or label is applied, the upper end portion 11 is secured on top of said folded portion of the flexible severing means, so that when either one of the free ends is drawn, the band or label will be completely severed so it may be readily removed by hand. It is further seen that I have provided a novel arrangement or contrivance which saves the time and the patience of the smoker and prevents injury to the cigar by the removal of the band. The ribbon or other flexible severing means may be colored as desired for the purposes of ornamentation, advertising or designation.

It is obvious that either arrangement may be utilized in connection with packages and other articles, where a band, label or securing means is used, to prevent damage to the wrapper or its contents, and further, that the flexible means may take the form of a ribbon, thread, cord, fiber, wire or the like.

W hat I claim is 1. In a cigar band severing device, a cigar band adapted to surround a cigar, a flexible severing means having its intermediate portion secured to the inside of said cigar band, and having portions positioned between the superposed end portions of said cigar band, the ends of said flexible severing means being free and one end projecting laterally from each side of said cigar band, so that either end may be drawn to sever the cigar band and remove the same from the cigar.

2. In combination with a band or label, having its end portions super-posed and secured together, a flexible severing means having its intermediate portion secured beneath one end portion of said band or label,

by either end may bev drawn so as to sever said band or label.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM C. GOSS. Witnesses:

R. D. LINK, NORA GRAHAM.

and its end portions folded over said end portion of said band or label and extending in opposite directions the other end portion of said band or label being secured over said flexible severing means, the extreme end portions of said flexible severing means being free and one end extending laterally from each side of said band or label, Where- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. G. 

